One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.